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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Supreme Court decision has Pakistan in fix, Musharraf may stay away

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While it's still early to say what the long term implications would be of the Supreme Court (SC) verdict, one outcome that is clear -- former President Musharraf would not be returning to Pakistan any time soon.

Leading lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan told reporters that while he would want Musharraf to be put on trial, "I don't see him coming back to Pakistan any time soon."

Ahsan and other legal figures are also of the opinion that the SC decision would also make other dictators "think twice" before they try and subvert the constitution of Pakistan.

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Trust vote 'as early as possible'

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek a vote of confidence "as early as possible" in response to the Left's withdrawal of support to the UPA on the India US civil nuclear agreement.

According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique issued after the PM called on President Pratibha Patil on Thursday evening, the PM told Patil that "he and his cabinet colleagues (were) keen to seek a vote of confidence as early as possible." The PM spent 30 minutes with the President. The communique was based on a letter he handed to her.

The PM will communicate the exact date of the trust vote to the President on Friday. There was speculation on Thursday that the government may choose a date around July 22 to call a special Lok Sabha session for the vote. Though the date will be finalised only after meetings of the UPA and the Congress Working Committee (CWC), coalition MPs have been asked to be in Delhi by July 22. This will be the first time since the beginning of the coalition era in 1989 that a PM will seek a trust vote after four years in office- six PMs before Singh faced trust votes inside their first couple of years.

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